diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ca10e250f..68a9b279d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-confluent-kafka>=2.4,<2.5
+confluent-kafka>=2.4,<2.9
 requests>=2.32
 rocksdict>=0.3,<0.4
 typing_extensions>=4.8